WHAT $12 MADE ME REALIZE ABOUT CREATIVITY BY TAGGART LOHMAN
A twelve dollar, black and white disposable camera. The disposable camera is the thing that most embodies creativity in my life. It’s light, compact, and always there. It’s the most spontaneous way to photograph, it captures memorable scenes, and you can even sneak it into places where cameras aren’t allowed.
It’s the total opposite of what cameras usually are: bulky, calculated, complex, and conspicuous. Just like how creativity is the opposite of typical corporate melancholy.
Like the disposable camera, creativity is always on, it’s always there- forcing you to be curious, to seek the second option, and making you look at the world in a different way.
Like the disposable camera, creativity is light, compact and spontaneous. Creative flow is intuitive. It is the playful and exciting version of work- it’s ambiguous (just like the film hidden inside a disposable camera, you don’t know exactly what’s going to come out of it.)
Like the disposable camera, creativity makes the user un-learn their other skills, and go back to that state of childhood play that we all crave to create better solutions.
Creativity can be snuck into any situation, and used to spice things up, just like the disposable camera can. It’s a weapon of curiosity and discovery, disguised as a tourist relic, and I can’t wait to develop the film.
Over the next 27 days, I’ll be bringing my disposable camera with me- everywhere I go. Hopefully it will remind me to be creative at all times, and allow me to create some great images. It’s my embodiment of creativity… what’s yours?
